This picture of the Terengganu state museum is taken just before I went to the Taman Tamadun and the Masjid Kristal as potrayed in the articles Taman Tamadun Islam (The Islamic civilisation park) of Terengganu... and Masjid Kristal (The Crystal Mosque)... Built for genuine worship or just to impress? So I made it a point to visit the museum later...
However, right after visiting the Masjid Kristal, I got a lift straight to Kampung Paloh where I did my afternoon prayers at the mosque of Tokku Paloh, named after a deceased venerable religious scholar of saintly status... The mosque is actually sandwiched between lands belonging to the museum. Here is part of the museum complex seen from beside the Tokku Paloh mosque...
When I'm done at the mosque, it's time to enter the museum, through it's backyard entrance that is... There, once could see a few Malay traditional houses as part of the museum exhibits, transported from elsewhere such as this...
I have always admired this house which sits just beside the Tokku Paloh mosque but in my latest visit on the 30th March 2008 only did I bother to find out the history of the house...
Here is another Malay traditional house on display...
Pass one or two more houses and you could see the museum's main hall beckoning...
Time to enter...
Now, I just wanted to have a quick look especially of some of the new exhibits under the theme Jawi history or something... Then I saw these tombstones, Aceh-type tombstones and just couldn't resist...
What made me excited was this particular Aceh tombstone... I found out that the stone was originally used to mark the tomb of a certain woman whose tomb I happened to have just visited earlier the same day! Her name is Tengku Maimunah binti (daughter of) Sultan Ahmad and I have posted a picture of her tomb (with new tombstone) along with some others in the article Masjid Tokku Tuan Besar dan makam-makam di belakangnya (The mosque of Tokku Tuan Besar and the tombs behind it) made in the blogspot SENI LAMA MELAYU (MALAY OLDEN ART) last night...
Since I've started taking pictures, might as well took some of the other exhibits... This vest with Quranic verse woven on it looks interesting...
The notice below says it is a vest worn by warriors as a sort of talisman for protection in wars...
Hmm... I think a lot of readers recognise what this is...
The unique Malay dagger known as the keris and its many variations are quite famous all over the world at least among martial-arts enthusiasts.
Time to leave the museum...
This staircase and the buildings beside are also part of the complex. For the record, the Terengganu state museum is the biggest museum in Malaysia! And for the record too, this is my 191th posting in this blogspot. Good night! :]
3 comments:
assalamualaikum. diharap rakan-rakan dpt juga baca blog berikut:
http://sejarahnagarakedah.blogspot.com/
segala persoalan mengenai, acheh, kedah, siam, semenanjung melaka terjawab. kita telah ditipu bulat-bulat oleh british.
Wassalam. Saya sendiri dah lama baca dah. Ada bahagian yang bagus tetapi ada bahagian yang saya nampak adalah silap tafsir terhadap buku Undang-undang Kedah kerana mahu menampilkan sejarah yang membesarkan keluarga sendiri. Termasuk dalam salah tafsiran ini adalah meletakkan Kedah dan Siam sebagai entiti utama memimpin kerajaan Melayu seNusantara lalu sejarah kebesaran Melaka pula cuba diperkecilkan kononnya, kebesaran Melaka itu cuma karangan sejarah seorang kerabat diraja Kedah yang dipanggil Marhum Melaka yang pro-British begitu...
Maka itu baca dengan matahati terbuka... Bandingkan juga dengan hikayat-hikayat lama seperti Hikayat Aceh, Hikayat Raja-raja Pasai, Sulalus Salatin (Sejarah Melayu) karangan Tun Sri Lanang, Tajus Salatin, Bustanus Salatin, Tuhfat al-Nafis dan sebagainya... Jangan jadi bodoh sampai menganggap semua cerita Melayu klasik ini sebagai rekaan Barat tetapi pada masa yang sama menganggap Undang-undang Kedah yang naskahnya baru diperolehi daripada Barat beberapa tahun ini lalu ditransliterasi daripada Jawi kepada Rumi oleh Maryam Salim adalah muktamad... Kalau muktamad pun perhatikan tafsiran... Mana mungkin buku teks undang-undang yang mengambil kes serta rujukan perlaksanaan undang-undang di Kedah bermula abad ke 16 atau 17 seterusnya baru abad ke 18 boleh mengakhiri ceritanya dengan kata-kata buku itu siap ditulis pada tahun 222 Hijrah bersamaan 800an Masihi gitu. Maryam Salim setakat mencatat balik apa yang dia nampak sedangkan dia mengakui kemungkinan besar teks yang ditranliterasinya itu ada ketinggalan satu nombor pada tarikh 222 itu...
Apapun, hakikatnya kepimpinan akhir zaman paling afdal diterajui darah keturunan Ahlul Bait keturunan Nabi Muhammad SAW yang terang bapa bin bapa bin bapa sampai kepada samada Saidina Hassan atau Saidina Hussein, bukan kepada mana-mana maharaja Siam ataupun Cina dan sebagainya...
Itu sahaja. Sekian! :]
Salam MS,
Sayang agak kurang jelas gambar keris yg dipercayai milik Sultan Mahmud Mangkat dijulang. Bilahnya cantik, Keris Penyalang umumnya, sebagai salah satu alat kebesaran istana, mungkin juga keris kuasa anugerah istana kepada pegawai2 pemerintah.
Salamsss
-awanbadai-
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